Family Life Key to Academic Success? - James Heckman

Complete video at: fora.tv Economist James Heckman argues that the public school has very little to do with rising or falling educational gaps among American students. "The primary determinant of school performance ... the family environment that children are supported in school," he says. Nobel Prize-winning economist James Heckman ----- delivers a speech titled "Schools, Skills and Synapses: An Economists Perspective on early childhood education and development" on the 2009Chautauqua Institution Summer Lecture Series. - Chautauqua Institution James J. Heckman is the Henry Schultz Distinguished Service professor of economics at the University of Chicago, where he has served since 1973 and where he directs the Economics Research Center and the Center for Social Program Evaluation at the Harris School. His work on the use of micro-economics for the development of public policy gained the 2000 Nobel Prize in Economics (with Daniel McFadden). Heckman'srecent research has focused on human development and life skill education, with particular attention to the economics of early childhood. This work has been politically important new insights in areas such as education, job training programs, minimum wage legislation, anti-discrimination law and civil rights.



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